Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1891 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCTI 19, 1891.

to protect the life of the Italian subjects, according to the terms of the treaties existing between the two countries, as had been called to tfc attention of the Governor by Secretary LUaine with an unquestionable spirit of justice, to which, the Jb-aron bore cheerful witness. , Sustained by the Diplomatic Corps. New York, March IS. The Italian newspaper. 11 Progresso, publishes the following tPlo-rnm from Washincton: Tha mem

bers of tho diplomatic corps are unanimous in their sympathy, and sustain the protest of Baron Fava, minister of King Humbert, and his claims for satisfaction and for indemnity for the families of the massacred." The editor of II PrJgresso will not tay from whom this dispatch was received, but it is posted all over the office and well die played in the paper. The mass indignation meeting will bo held on Friday evening. The Christoforo Colombo says editorially: 'Part of the American press is striving to show that the butchering of the Italians in New Orleans is not an international afi'air. They say that, every single State of the Union it selfgoverning, and tho federal power has no faculty whatever to interfere with Its internal affairs. It (Cnstoforo Colombo) answers that in the affairs of the United States with foreign powers, the federal government is the legal representative of every single State and an international treaty signed by this central power binds every other State in the tJnion. If such was not the case it would "be useless for the foreign nations to make any treaty with the United States. It -would be better to make a special treaty "with each State of the Union." 03IaIIey and Jaror Sellgman. Chicago, March IS. D. C. CMalley. of 2ew Orleans, for whom a body of citizens were Id search with a noosed rope for alleged complicity with the Mafia, is said to be in Chicago. He left New Orleans, and is reported to have been seen at the Grand Hotel, in Cincinnati, on Monday night, in company with Seligman, foreman of tho jury in the llennessy case. The rumor is that O'Malley came here from Cincinnati, and is in hiding with one of his friends, a prominent saloon-keeper. The latter denies taat he is hero. Protest from Toronto. Toronto, March 18. Two public meetings of Italians of this city were held tonight, and it was decided to send this cablegram to the Marquis Di Rudini, Prime Minister of Italy: The Umberto Primero Society of Toronto protests against the inhuman, cruel murder that occurred at New Orleans, and solicits action from the heme government.' THE MAFIA IN THIS COUNTRY. A Secret Order of the Vilest of ailscreants Whose MJsilon Is Vengeance. Setr York Press. .x The discovery of the existence of the Mafia in this city was through the brutal murder cf Antonio Flaccomio in front of Cooper Union, by Carlo Quarraro, on Oct. 11, 1683. The men walked arm-in-arm quietly up the Bowery when, suddenly, Quarraro plunged a knife into Flaccomo and lied.' Investigation showed that tne murdered man had once killed a Sicilian, and his. death was decreed by the Mali a. This organization still fl ourishes In this city. New Orleans and other large centers. Its members are natives of the Island of Sicily, which is the home of the parent organization. The Mafia is made np of forgers, counterfeiters, burgl&rs, highwaymen, murderers and other criminals and fugitives from justice. The memberj know each other by signs and pass-words, and their headquarters in America are in New York and New Orleans. It is one of their by-laws that a man should die rather than divulge the secrets of the order or say a single word that would aid in the conviction of one of the members, and they live np to this with strict persistency.. An informer is worse than an enemy in their eyes, and l a must be killed. ,Th person to do the killing is selected by lot, and if he becomes weakhearted and fails to do the work he forfeits ununu lite. xuo juoutwoio vi iao a j applauded Flaccemio's murder, because it vindicated their power. Ilia death was decreed rears before, and the avengers followed him until the fatal blow was struck. Inspector Byrnes knows of every ramification of the Matia. and can touch at will any of its members in New York. This knowledge has been attained . by most superior detective work. The Matia it not a new society. It existed at the beginning of the present century in Sicily, being then composed of notie men banaed together for protection. Its end was pure and high. The bravest and best of the race belonged to it. There were meetirg places, oaths and officers. After lSuO, however, when Garibaldi, favour and Victor ilmmanuel absorbed Sicily, the reason for existence of the Maha no longer remained and it died out as a patriotic organization. But the lower orders, especially tho criminals, held together. In time all honest men abandoned, the Mafia, and it became a refuge for criminals only. It is a plague to the government, a barrier to justice, and the police of Sicily have in vain tried to break it up. Thousands of criminals have been driven :to America, and here they have come together in groups without special form of organization, and with no -other officers than the natural leaders of such bodies. In hew York and New Orleans there are. Inspector Byrnes thinks, several thousand members of the Mafia. They are a proud, fierce race who look upon ordinary Italians with disdain and disgust. They are mostly barbers, fruit sellers and saloon keepers. Many of them carry stilettos, but their favorite weapon is the razor. A murderer who iliea from Sicily red handed is taken into the bosom of the Mafia here and shielded. Inspector Byrnes has good reason to suspect that the New York and Sicilian Matia work in perfect harmony. The New York police find it harder to trace crime among Italians than among any other nationality. The Mafia is always in the way, invisible, watchful, working and powerful. Its members know that the old brotherhood stick to the old vengeance. Some one takes it upon himseif to punish the traitor. Inspector Byrnes yesterday declined to talk at length about the Mafia to a Tress reporter, saying that just cow it would not serve the interests of the police department or the public. "I cannot plead the baby act," said the Inspector, "for I know all about them and their doings, but it is hardly the time to divulge such information." The Inspector illustrates the working ot the Mafia by a case he took up several yeaxv ago. Some of the Mafia sent a big bullet to a Sicilian gentleman in this city, writing him to pay the messenger who carried the ballet '500 or & companioa bullet would punish refusal. A few days later the man received warning that when the other bullet came the money most be paid. Inspector Byrnes took bullets and letters and shadowed the man night and day. The Mafia never dreamed a Sicilian would divulge tbexr secret, and so did not fear capture. Byrnes ftoon captured two of the criminals. The Sicilian went to Italy on business, and the prisoners thus escaped. But the result was that one night a great quantity of valuable lemon trees in the complainant's groves in Sicily were secretly destroyed by the Mafia. m MKel Settles the Question at Last Chicago, March 18. "Mike" Kelly yesterday received a telegram from Director H art, of the Boston Association team, asking hint to declare himself one way or another, so tuat boU sides could know where he stood. He accordingly called at a newspaper otfi.ee and tieclartd that he would plav with the .American Association next year. He had signed contract, which was in ponsession ot President Prince, of Boston. Kelly will probably captain the Cincinnati club. Ho nas secured liadbonrnrt to nitrh for him. Kelly left for Bo&ton to-night and will remain there until the opening of the season. Lore-Making I Not Insanity. Nw York, March 18.-Judge McAdam to-day conducted an inquiry, with a jury in the touperior Court, iuto the sanity of Louis Anaand, a former tutor of Mrs. 0. B. Aleander. of this city, formerly Miss Crocker, daugbterof theCaliforniamillionatre. Armand has persistently annoyed the lady by sending her passionate love letters, and by callisx at her residence. About fivt weeics ago he was committed to the Ward's Island Asylum as an insane person. Ihe jury to-day decided that Ar- , tiind trta cine, and ha was discharged.

AMERICAN BEEFIN GERMANY

Restrictions Removed Through the Untiring Efforts of 31inister Phelps. Three ITandred Cattle Received at Hamburg and Pronounced in flood Condition Oar Pork Also in a Fair Way to Be Admitted. WILL EAT AMKMCAN I1EEF. Minister Phelp Induce Germany to Remove the Km bar go Pork May Also lie Admitted. Berlin, March 18. Owing to the untiring efforts of the United States minister here, the Hon- William Walter Phelps, Chancollor Von Caprivi has removed the embargo placed upon American cattle landed at Hamburg, and it is likely that Mr. Phelps will be able to obtain th removal of the restrictions plaqed upon the importation of the American hog. Already three hundred American beeves have been landed at Hamburg as an experiment. Ibis landing of American cattle has been carried on for week, and has only been known to the imperial government, to Mr. Phelps and to the authorities of the Port of Hamburg. All parties concerned are pleaded with tho success of the experiment. Mr. Phelps, at a series of dinners which he lias given at his residence here, has given his guests American beef, and has thus introduced its uso in the families of many distinguished members of the fashionable circles of Berlin. -In turn, the Hamburg local officials are making costly permanent improvements in tho landiug facilities now at the disposal of the import-houses of American cattle. The object of the Hamburg officials in making tne improvements referred to is to encourage aud develop the trade in American cattle. The present course followed in landing cattle at Hamburg is as follows: After the cattle have been examined by the veterinary surgeons of the port they are, when pronounced entirely healthy, landed from the steamships and are driven to a large, airy building built of iron and stone, where they are immediately sold to the butchers. The custom up to quite recently has been to keep American cattle under a sort of surveillance or quarantine for four months previous to killing them. Model abattoirs are now being built at Hamburg. The cost of the buildings will be $$00,000. Then there is a separate house for hogs, which is already completed and ready for the trade which it is expected will develop in American hogs so soon as the restrictions upon their importation are removed. The erection of this hog-house shows the confidence which the officials of Hamburg place in the ability of Mr. Phelps to obtain the removal of the obnoxious restrictions. Chancellor Von Caprivi is now considering the point made by Mr. Phelps, who asks that American hogs be allowed to land in the same manner and under the same inspection as American cattle. The interview with Mr. Jeremiah M. Eusk, Secretary of the United States De partment of Agriculture, in which he is 3 noted as saying that the United States oes not ask, but demands,, the repeal of the hog restrictions," is largely quoted by tne hostile press, and may delay matters. PARNELL'S CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Maurice Ilealey Will Resign from Parliament and Make the Race Suggested, , Cork, March 18. Mr. Maurice Healy, on of the members of Parliamentfor Cork city, announces that he accepts the challenge of Mr. Parnell. that they should both resign their seats in Parliament and present themselves for re-election as a test of the popular sentiment in favor of the merits' of the McCarthyites.andthe Parnellite causes. Mr. Parnell also represents Cork city, which has two seats in Parliament. In accepting Parnell's challenge Mr. Healy requests Mc Parnell to name the date upon which they are both to resign their seats in Parliament, and says he hopes that he Mr. Parnell) will not resort to 'Committee-room No. 15. 'or Boulogne tactics" to escape the judgment of the electors. . Mr. Parnell made an onslaught upon Belfast this morning. The News of that city belongs to the proprietors of the Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, which strongly supports Mr. Parnell. The News, recently, has not gbeen enthusiastic in its advocacy of Mr. Parnell's leadership, consequently the editor of the News was dismissed to-day, and a Parnellite editor was appointed in hie place. Nevertheless Parnellism is daily declining in Belfast. Speaking at Lambeth to-day Mr. McCarthy credited Mr. Parnell with the full blame for the failure of the Boulogne negotiations. He said one result of the controversy was that Ireland had declared' forever against dictatorship. If the Irish were to be governed by a dictator, he would as lief have Balfour as anybody else. Should Go Hack to Ireland at Once. ' " Baltimore, March 18. Very Rev. P. J. Donahue, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, in his St. Patrick's day address, speaking of the "cruel crisis" now upon Ireland, said: "Often and often we have helped her with our means. We can now best aid by withholding our means. A request has been Qirde across the Atlantic for more funds, to U followed np throughout the land by a personal appeal. I believe I voice the views . and feelings of a vast majority of Irish-Americans when I say that their love of Ireland is too great; their love of peace too great; their common sense too great to encourage the embassy just arrived upon these shores. Back with them and settle the quarrel where it belongs. Eagerly and long, from year to year, Irish Americans have desired for Ireland liberty, autonomy and peace, yet they desire peace withhonor.victory won with clean hands. When the trumpet again rings out for battle they desire no Sir Launcelet as their champion in the fray, but a Sir Gala-had-Whose strength is as the strength of ten! Because his heart is pure." Bishop Keane. President of the Catholic University at Washington, in a St. Pat" riok'a day address in this city, said: "Ireland's banner will trail in the dust till clean hands raise it aloft again. The laud of purity of life demands a man of pure life to say to her millions, follow me." V GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. France and England "Are Talkiug Sow" by Telephone Mme. Roche the Flint to Use It. Paris, March 18. The inaugural telephone talk between London and Paris by the new land and submarine crfble line, yesterday, was a notable event in the history, of rapid communications in Europe. Mine. Koche, wife of M. Kociie, Minister of Industry and the Colonies, bad the honor of uttering the first words over the new line. - M. Roche then held a conversation with Mr. Henry Cecil Kaikes. the I'oatmaster-general of Great Britain. M. Koche said that he hoped that the telephone line would form a fresh link of friendship between Great Britain and France. The Earl of Lytton, the British embassador at Paris, and M. Delscvcs. the Director-general of the Posts and Telegraph Department, also spoke to Mr. Kaikes. The Dead Prince. Home. March 18. The body of ;Prince Napoleou is lying m state in the mortuary chapel improvised in the house Yn which he died. The body is clothed in sf black frockcoat. The cross of the Legipn of. Honor and the Italian order of the Anuunciada I are upon the dead Prince's breast. King . .... Humbert has oracially erdeted that the interment of the remains of Prince Napoleon shall take place in the royal crypt in the church of Lasuperga, at Turin. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the President delivered an eulogy on Prince Napqleon. Ho then moved that the Chamber adjourn a a mark of respect. lie also moved that an address of condolence be Bjent to - the relatives of the dead Prince, and that a committee be appointed to attend his funeral. The Marquis Di Rudini concurred with the 1 President, and the House was then adjonrned, the members standing with their, beads uncovered. In the Senate similar iaotions were carried, and that body was adjourned tor a week. It Is understood that Prince Victor will

cot make his claim to be head of the Napoleon family while ho enjoys tho hospitality of Italy. Government Defeated In the Commons. London, March 18. In the House of Commons, to-day, Mr. Wm. Bowan Rowlands, Gladstonian member for Cardiganshire, Wales, moved, John Morley, Gladstonian, supporting the motion, the second reading of the, Welch local-option bill, which was carried by a vote of 186 to 179, amid opposition cheers. Before the division on the motion. Mr. Matthews, the nonie Secretary, announced that, much as the government desired to encourage temperance, they did not consider that the bill had such prospects of success as to justify them in supporting it. He especially quoted the results of the Scott bill in Canada in support of the government's stand. The government would therefore oppose the motion. The majority consisted mainly of Liberals, including tiir Wm. Vernon llarcourt. Sir G. Q. Trevolyan and" Mr. Morley. Many dissidents and several Conservatives also voted with the majority. Convicts on Limited Rations. London, March 18. A train loaded with provisions which had been sent to the relief of the prisoners and officials of Dartmoor prison, who had been cut off from their usual supplies by the terrible snowstorm which prevailed here recently, succeeded in reaching the prison to-day after being snow-blocked for nine days. In the meantime the rations of the inmates of the prison had to be reduced, and there was considerable grumbling among the convicts becanse they were forced to subsist on salt meat, and one of the prisoners finally became so angry because his demands for other food were not granted that he stabbed and seriously wounded one of the warders. Scotch Crofters to Be Sent to America. . London. March 18. In its final report the parliamentary committee on colonization does not advise a general extension of the system of state aided ' emigration, except in the case of the confested . districts in Scotland and reland. The committee suggests that the provisions of the Irish land bill, dealing with the question of congested districts, be also applied to Ireland. They advise that the experiment of . sending a hundred crofter families to America be repeated, and also advise the adoption of the proposal of British Columbia of a loan of 100,000 from the treasury, free of interest for five years, for the purpose of assisting in the work of colonization. Joined the Chilian Rebels. Buenos Ayres, March 18. A dispatoh received from Valparaiso states that Mayor Valdivieso, of that city, has gone over to the insurgents, after winning over to their cause the garrison, which deserted the fort after spiking the guns. The ex-government troops then seized President Balmaceda's transport, the Madia, which was anchored in the harbor, and which was loaded with gatling gnus, rifles and ammunition. After this the Mayor and garrison embarked on board tho transport and steamed northward to join the insurgents. This is a tremendous blow to President Balraaceda's prestige, and his cause may now fairly be said to be on the wane. Wholesale Arrests of Betters. Liverpool, Maroh 18. The numerous betting clubs of this city were crowded today by their patrons, who were anxiously awaiting the result of the Lincoln races, this being the third and last day of the Lincoln spring meeting and the day during which tho famous Lincolnshire handicap was decided by Lord George winning the event. While the betting fraternity were awaiting tho result of this race the police made a wholesale raid upon the betting clubs and arrested scores of the proprietors, employes and patrons of those establishments. An Insult by a Princess Leads to a Challenge. Vienna, March 18. During the height of the festivities at a ball given at the German embassy, in this city, in February last, the Princess of Re ass, wife of the Germen embassador, called aloud to M. Vaicaresco, an attache of the Roumanian legation, and son of the Roumanian minister, to leave the place, as he had not been invited to the ball. As a result of this insult it is now learned that the elder Vaicaresco has resigned his position so as to enable him to challenge the Prince of Reuss for tho affront which the Princess oil ere d to his son.

Bifttnarclc Wo old Not Give Up the Letters. Berlin, MarchlS. TheNeuesteNachrichten, commenting on Count yon Waldersee's recent visit to Princ6 Bismarck, says that the Count desired to obtain letters written by the present Emperor during his father's sojourn at San Remo, but that Bismarck refused to give them; hence tho efforts to reconcile Prince Bismarck and the Emperor have collapsed, and the Hamburger Nachrlchten has resumed attacks upon tho government. Interment of Br. Windthorst's Remains. Hanover, March 18. The interment of the remains of Dr. Ludwl g Windthorst, the late leader of the Catholio party in Germany, took place here to-day. Present at the ceremonies were a large number of the members of the Reichstag. Delegations from various Catholic associations of the Rhine provinces and of Westphalia took part in the procession which followed the remains to the grave. Bishop Hildesheim officiated at the funeral services. Gladstone Narrowly Escapes an Accident. London, March 18. It has transpired that Mr. Gladstone, after his speech at Hastings yesterday, had a narrow escape from a serious accident. The coachman who was driving the carriage which took Mr. Gladstone to the railroad station lost control of his horses. , The horses were stopped with difficulty, and the coachman was fined for drunkenness to-day, the charge against him having been preferred by the police. Cable Notes. Tippoo Tib has been striken with paralysis, his right arm and side being affected. Thirty Brazilian deputies have issued a manifesto against the policy of the government. Colonel Mapleson, the English impresario, was married yesterday to Mrs. Laura Scbirmer Byron, at the Lnglish embassy in Paris. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Berliner Tageblat, which paper is the chief mouth-piece of the Jews in Germany, has been expelled from Russia under the antiJewish decree. An American millionaire won $7,200 at Monte Carlo on Tuesday at roulette. He won eighteen maximum bets attrenteet quaranto on Wednesday morning, but lost all in the evening. TheLondonTimes's correspondent at Homo says that an inquiry has shown that the recent stories of massacres at Massowah were unfounded, the only basis for the reports being the execution of a few spies and traitors. m Will Meet In Indianapolis. Cincinnati, O., March IS. The Chicago and Ohio River Railway Tratlic Association, after deliberating yesterday and today till early afternoon without being able to reach a conclusion, adjourned to meet in Indianapolis next Friday and resume the consideration of the matter. They wero trying to fix rates on articles classified with iron between the Ohio river and Chicago and points within the bailiwick of the association. They had an informal conference with delegates to the meeting of the Southern Railway and Steamship Association the result of which has not been divulged. The Southern Builway aud Steamship Association met to consider rates between here and the Carolinas and other Southeast Atlantic ports within it control. It is understood that they resolved to continue the rates agreed uk .n last year.The Right Thing. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. President Harrison did the right thing in countermanding General Ordway'a order aisbanding tho colored brigades of the District of Columbia militia. It wouldn't be a bad idea, either, to put anew man at the had of the organization one who will not allow his prejudices to overslaugh his judgI mcnt ,

FATAL FIEES AT NEW YORK

Four Lives Lost by the Burning of a Tenement, Early Yesterday Morning. Fireman's Body Recovered from the Rnfns of Tuesday Night's Fire Pleasure Party Upset on a Mountain bide and Fifteen Injured. FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK. Four Persons Burned to Death In a TenementSeveral Madly Hurt. New York, March IS. The brick tenement, No. 87 Allen street, which vras live stories in height, was gutted by fire at an early hour this morning. Tho first floor was a liquor store, owned by G astro. Alexander Solomon, and Max Goldstein lived on the second floor. The third floor was occupied by Harris Green berg, the fourth by Marion Kidello and the fifth floor by Barnard Jarter. The damage to the furniture is about $5,000 and to the building 1 10.000. covered by insurance. Three members of the Jarter family were burned to death. Thoy were Bernard Jarter, fifty-six years old; Betsy Jarter, thirteen years old. aud Sarah Jarter, eighteen years. Sarah was last seen by her brother Harry as he was making his escape from the burmug building with his mother, Minnie Jarter, and his nine-year-old brother, Abraham. The following people were more or less injured: Minnie Jarter, fifty-six years old. burned about the face, taken to Bellevue Hospital; Abraham Goldstein, three weeks old, was thrown from the third-story window of the burning building to the sidewalk to save him from being burned to death. He received intornal injuries from the fall, and was removed to GouveneuFs Hospital; Henry Jarter, nineteen years old, was slightly burned on the right hand. The fire broke out at 3:15 o'clock, when every member of the ten families in the house was fast asleep. Before the firemen could get to work tho flames, that had crept stealthily from the cellar up the only stairway, enveloped the house from the street to the roof. The tenants Hebrew tailors, with their families who wero roused suddenly to confront death in its most terrible form, swarmed down the fire-escapes on both sides of the building, shrieking and wailing as they called for their dear ones. The iron rungs of the fire-escapes were turning white with heat when Max Goldstein reached for them from the third floor and recoiled in despair. He stood holding his three imie children in bis arms. From the street the police yelled to him to drop them down. The police caught Moses, aged three, and then Ruth, a year-old baby, but Abraham, three years old, followed so quickly that, though the policemen broke his fall, they wero unable to catch him. He fell heavily on the pavement and was picked up senseless, injured internally. The father himself jumped after and escaped unhurt. The building was gutted and the tenants lost all their household eliects. When, the firemen entered, at 5 o'clock, led by Chief Kuhoe. it was reported that ten lives were lost in the flames. The four lower stories were searched and no one was found. In the fifth story, next to the roof, the firemen found Barnet Jarter and his two daughters, dead. The Eolice believe that the house was burned y incendiaries. 1 " Another body was discovered late to-day. It was that of Philip Elschisky. Ho was a tailor. Loss Greater than First 'Reported. . New Yokk, March 18. All morning long immense crowds of ' people gathered in Greene, Mercer and Bleecker streets and watched the firemen at work doing their utmost to drown out the fire that was still burning in the sub-cellars. On the Greenestreet side of the fire the street railway put men to work to clear the tracks of piles of brick and mortar that obstructed them to' the depth of six. or seven feet. The southern end of the Cohenfeld building, the only portion oT the wall left standing on Greene street, swayed back and forward in the wind to-day, threatening to come , tumbling dowon the heads of the firemen at work in the streel bencatn. The search for the body of Spellman was proscuted with all the speed possible, additional men being put to work as soon as they could. The actual loss sustained by those burned out is t preseut impossible to learn with any accuracy. It is said by those aualitied to Judge that the loss of Alfred Benjamin & Co. will reach at least $100,000 or 200,000 more than at first given. Hamerslaugh, Sax & Co. put their loss at 5G.jO.ooo. and E. V. Connett & Co. at $100,cOO. All are insured for nearly the full value of their stocks. The body of James S. Speelraan, of the insurance patrol, was found in tho ruins of the Hammerslough building late to-day, burned to a criup, and lying on the third floor. Cordage-Works Destroyed. Elizabeth, N. J., March 18. The works of the Elizabethport Cordage ' Company comprising several brick structures covering tweuty acres of ground, were destroyed by fire this afternoon. The flames started in the laying ground from an overheated shaft It was near the engine-rooms, and the employes were shut off from the use of the company's pumps and fire apparatuses. The buildings were filled with oil. hemp aud other inflammable material, and the tire spread with such rapidity that, while the entire fire department were early at the scene,they were powerless to check the progress of the flames. Their efforts were turned to saving the adjoining houses, several of which took fire. All the buildings of the company savo one storage house, together with machinery and stock, were consumed. The loss is estimated at $700,000; insured. When the fire broke tut there were in the works about five hundred operators, mostly girls, and a great panic was caused. All escaped without injury, however. In 1880 the buildings were partially burned and two firemen were killed by falling walls. Opera-House Burned. Joliet, 111., March 18. A disastrous fire broke oat in the opera-house this morning at 8 o'clock, causing a total loss of the utructure and to the various firms occupying it. The loss on the opera-houeo building was $50,000; insurance, $J0,000. The loss to occupants, including two business firms, three society lodges and the rooms of the Union Club, aggregate about $12,000; partially insured. Other Looses by Flrew Saginaw, Mich., March 18. The Saginaw county poor-house burned yesterday, and forty inmates, many of them maimed and imbeciles, had a narrow escape for their lives. Nothing was saved from the building, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the body of Charles Peace, who died at midnight, was dragged out. Two of the inmates escaped in tho confusion. Detroit, Mich., March 18. Fire this afternoon damaged tho Detroit Opera-house to the extent of 35,000; insurance, unknown. The theater will be reopened next week. Dundee, Blarch 18. The Wilkes linenworkB, at Kirriemuir, five miles from Forfar, were destroyed by lire last night. Tho damage done is estimated at 50,000. ACCIDENT TO A PLEASURE PARTY. A Wajon Goes Down the Mountain Side, Seriously Injuring riften People. Georgetown, Col., March 18. A frightul accident occurred ut 3 o'clock this morning, directly opposite the famous bridal veils above Georgetown. A party of sixteen young people had engaged a team and band-wagon belonging to A. D. Kingley, of this place, to bring them home from the St. Patrick's ball at Silver Plume. At the point named the team became unmanageable and turned the entire party down the mountain side upon the rocks below. Those that escaped injurv from the fall caught it from the kicks and plunges of the horses, so that but one of thorn is uninjured. It is supposed the wagon came npon some ice and was too heavy for the animals to hold. The driver was Wm. Choate. Marv McGreeryhad her teeth kicked out and part of one of her lips is gone. She is still unconscious. Mary Ellis was badlv hurt internally. Mary Shea was kicked in the face by a horse, llert Valle's ribs wero broken. John Ualcomb had eight stitches put in his

side and eight in his lips. Andrew Fizpatrick and William Choate are also among the injured. Serious Passenger Wreck. Little Kock. ATk.. March 18. There was a serious wreck on the Little Rock & Fort Smith road near Ozark this morning, in which a number of passengers en route to this city and intermediate stations were more or less injured. Tho wreck was caused by a spreading rail. Three coaches and the baggage left the track and toppled over. Tho injured are: G. C. Williams, Ozark, slightly bruised on face; W. A. Keiser. tiecontractor, Knshville. badly cut about head and hands, with internal injuries; W. A. Wamble, news agent, slightly bruised; J. S. Cooley, school teacher, Omaha, Tex., slight sprain of right side, and knee wrenched; J. A. McNnlty, Denver, Col., cut about head and left leg badly bruised; Mrs. Elizabeth McNnlty. Denver, side hurt, internal injuries; W. H. Beck, drummer, Leavenworth. Kan., bruised, and slightly cut; Mrs. Catherino Beck, Leavenworth, Kan., cut about head and shoulders, bruised and sprained. . The passenger was due here at 1:45 p. m., but did not arrive until late in the afternoon. The injured were well tsken care of. Fatal Explosion at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, March 18. An explosion at the Crescent steel-works, on Fifty-first street, at 8 o'clock this morning, killed one workman, fatally injured two more and slightly hurt six others. The names of those killed and fatelly injured are: Fredrick Bernhart, aged- forty years, killed instantly; Hans Wittman, about thirty-five years old, back burned, ribs broken and injured internally; will die; John Gustavison, badly burned about the legs and trunk; will die. Six other workmen were burned and cut by being hit by hot slag and tljing slag. Their injuries are not serious. The explosion was caused by hot slag falling from a furnace into a pool of water. But little damage was done to the mill i Ponr Men Injured by an Explosion. As ii land. Pa., March 18. While a gang of men were engaged in drilling a rock tunnel in the third rock at Centralia colliery a spark flew from a lamp which was fastened on the cap of the men, and fell into a large can of powder standing near by. A terrihe explosion resulted. John Roberts, James McGaun, Morgan Evans and Harry Williams were badly burned, the first three robably fatally. The mine is operated by u A. Reilly & Co., and is considered the largest in the region. Killed In a Coal-Mlne. Marshaixtown, la.. March 18. A horrible accident occurred yesterday in the coalmine at Lehigh, Webster county. While John Peterson was working in the bottom of a hundred-foot shaft the rope supporting the heavily-loaded bucket broke when the latter was near the top, the bucket descended with frightful velocity, the' chain striking Peterson on the top of the head, cleaving the entire body in twain. OYER FIVE HUNDRED DROWNED. fConcluded from First Page.

to-morrow, for the purpose of considering what action shall be taken for the relief of the shipwrecked people. Divers who have made an examination of the wreck of the Utopia report that there are hundreds of bodies in the steerage and between decks. During the course of the day the bodies of twenty-eight men and one woman were recovered at Gibraltar, while at various other points along the coast the bodies of six men. eighteen women, seven boys and one girl were washed ashore. One of the women, when her body was taken from the water, was found to have her arms firmly locked around the corpse of her child. The remains of the unfortunate peoDle were taken to a cemetery in the Spanish lines, where an inquest was held. - The authorities have provided ambulances, provisions, bedding and clothing for the survivors, and the inhabitants are assisting to their utmost in the work of mitigating the distress of the poor people. A private fund has also been started to provide for' the immediate needs of tho ship-wrecked passengers. Two other saloon passengers besides Mr. Colbron were saved. Pickets are stationed along the breakwater to recover any bodies that may be washed ashore. THE SHIP AND CARGO. Former Valued at 5400,000 and the Latter at 300,000 Disposition of Survivors. ' New York, March 18. The agents of the Anchor Line Steamship Company to-day received the following report of the disaster: "Tho list of the saved embraces two cabin passengers, 90 steerage passengers and twenty-five of the crew. Fifteen of the crew and 475 passengers were lost. The ship was not insured. The cargo, intended for Mediterranean ports, was valued at $200,000, and the steamship at 400.000. The passengers saved, will be brought over on the steamer Assyria, of the same line, which was at Genoa at the time of the accident, and has been ordered to Gibraltar." By this delay the Utopia's passengers will not arrive here until after the new law providing "that no emigrant without personal effects snail be permit tedto land" goes iuto eflect. Colonel Weber said today that the survivors of the Utopia would probably be examined in Gibraltar, and tho destitute, and sick, and crippled left behind, and only those with baggage and able to take care for themselves be brought. The Anchor Hue was notified by Colonel Weber of these facts. The agents in London of the Anchor line, to which the Utopia belonged, have been informed that the Utopia was struck abaft the engine-room and that she sank stern foremost five minutes after the collision, in seven fathoms of water. The agents announce that they find it difficult to ascertain the exact number of lives lost, but they say ISO Italians were saved, that eight bodies have been washed ashore, and that there are 173 persons rescued from the Utopia on board the British warships. They add that the force of the gale which still prevails in Gibralter bay prevents the people on shore from communicating satisfactorily with the commanders of the warships, so that they are unable to ascertain the names of the survivors. Several boats belonging to the fieet were wrecked while engaged in the rescue. Twelve Sailor Drowned. San Francisco, March 18. The Merchants' Exchange has advices that the Norwegian bark I in per at or. bound from Cardiff to Santa Rosilia, is a total wreck east of Boa vista, Cape De Verde islands, and that twelve of the crew were drowned. Movements of Steamers. New Yokk, March 18. Arrived: -Majestic, from Liverpool; Waesland, from Antwerp. Movillk. March 18. Arrived: Anchoria, from New York. London, March 18. Sighted: Lahn, from New York. Yankee Doodle and Macaroni. New York Continent. It is to be hoped that we do no et into a war with Italy. We cannot raist ur own macaroni, and without it we shall be forced back into that lamentable condition of affairs that obtained at the time of the revolution, when Yankee Doodle came to town, Kidlng on a pony, Stuck a feather lu his hat. And called bim niacaronh utterly ignoring the fact that no amount of calling it so could ever make macaroni of a featben Facts, Stubborn Facts. Boston Journal. In connection with the recently reiterated assertion that the McKinley tariff bill "prohibits" trade, it is interesting to notice that the imports landed at New York in the month of February were larger than in any previous February on record. As illustrating also the value of the enlarged free list of the McKinluy bill, which the freetrade press regularly ignores or scoffs at, it is to be observed that the principal increase was in goods which came in duty free. The dutiable imports amounted to 2.,52i,S99. The free imports aggregated 818.071.W1. During 1S90 there were 40,105 deaths in New York; births, 29.SS0; marriages, 14.972.

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I1EATI SHOE FAILUKE. J. & A. Slmpklnson, Hoot and Shoe Dealers, Cincinnati, Suspend. Cincinnati. March 18. There is profound sympathy in all business circles in the city to-day at the announcement of the failure of the old boot and shoe tirm of J. fc A. Simpkinson. The men have grown old in an honorabj and hitherto successful business career in Cincinnati, and both have always oeen valuable and honored members of the community. Mr. John Simpkinson has been active in many public enterprises, benevolent and otherwise, and as he was about to retire on account of age this disaster is deplorable. There has hewn no sudden loss but only a gradual reduction in the volume of business, and as the firm h"d recently moved into their Fourthstreet establishment, the burden became too heavy to be borne. The firm is composed of John Simpkinsou. his brother Alfred Simpkinson, and z nephew, II. H. tiiinpkiuson, who is also an adopted son of John (simpkinson. He became a member of the tirm within a few years past. Yesterday the beginning of tho failure was shown by the tiling of deeds and mortgages by the members of the tirm to the amount of 150,000. These were to the Davis .Shoe Company, $27,000; to John Kelly, guardiau, 81-.000; Elizabeth Kolson, $17,000; Mary H. H. Wolcott. guardian, $12,000, and to others for smaller amounts. These were chattle mortgages. A real estate mortgage on the Fourth-street establishment was given to the Davis Shoe Company for 30.000. The liabilities are estimated at $400,000; the at ets at f 300.000. The assignee is Herman P. Goebel. It is said the assignment leaves the men absolutely penniless, their eiegant residences being turned over to their creditors. Other llamlness Embarrassments. Topkka. Kan., March 18. The United States Savings Bank, of this city, closed its doors this morning and made an assignment to Samuel T. House, president of the Kansas National Bank. The failure of the bank was caused by the failure, a few weeks ago, of John D. Knox, father of W. C. Knox, president of the bank. The Eastern creditors of the bank connected tho father and son with the ss zings, bank and withdrew their support. The liabilities caunot be learned. The assets are large, and will pay in- full all lia.bilitied. The capital stock of the bank was $261,000. President Knox slid ithis evening that the liabilities of the oank were about 200.000, and which were fully equaled by the assets. Stephenville, Tex., March 18. John A. Frey, general merchant, to-day filed a deed of trust fot the benetit of creditors. Liabilities, $24,000; assets in excess of liabilities. . . TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Ferdinand Trotz, an old man charged with arson, banged himself in jail, at Milwaukee, yesterday. Levi M. Eberhardt, a tax-collector of Lockbaven, Pa., who embezzled $1,000. was arrested yesterday in Chicago. An unknown tramp was shot and instantly killed by James Hill, the Wabash bridge watchman at St. Louis last night. Anextraof the Ottawa Official Gazette, issued yesterday, calls the Canadian Parliament together on Wednesday, April 21). Gurdion Conklmg. of Glens Falls, N. Y., has sold bis Electioneer stallion. Governor Stanford, to a New York horseman for $15,000. . The Waupeton and Seszeton Indian reservation, representing 800,000 acres of line farming lana in Minnesota, has been opened for settlement. The . body of Andrew Finnigan, an old Irishman, a laborer, was found in a deserted stable iu Kansas City yesterday. He had evidently died of cold and hunger. . A bill has been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature, appropriating $20,000 for securing and placing in the national Capitol statues of the late General Sibley and Secretary Windom. The famous Maxwell land grant, containing 1,700.(00 acres of land in Colorado, has been sold, it is the largest deal ever recorded in the West. The company is stocked for $10,000,000. John W. Young, son of Brigham Young, has contracted to build 1,500 miles of railroad in Mexico and is to receive in payment 2,500,000 acres of land, on which he will locate a Mormon colony. Andy Moore, aged twenty-one, and Miss Allie Cox, aged sixteen, were drowned yesterday in the Laxapatie river, at Birmingham, Ala. Moore could have saved his own life by swimming out alone. A copy of the indictment against Tascott for tha murder of Millionaire Snell, of Chicago, was sent to the authorities at Aberdeen, S. D., yesterday, where a man supposed to be Tascott is in custody. The Missouri State committee of the Y. M. C A, will send Myron A. Clark, of Kansas City, to Brazil to establish an international association of the Y. M. C. A. in that republic The necessary funds were placed to his credit to-day. John Collet, a boy eight years old, was arrested 'at. Newport Ky yesterday, charged with cutting, with intent to' kill, Charles Cl.vde, a lad about In He wabjsent to jail to await the resui of the injuries on his victim. The Wisconsin House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of opium without a physician's certificate or to sell tobacco or cigarettes to minors after notice forbidding such sale has been given by a parent or guardian. Patrick Allen, of Omaha, and Lawrence Farrell, of Chicacro, heavy-weights, fousht a thirty-three-round "mill" twenty miles from Denver, Col., yesterday afternoon, for a purse of $-500. Farrell won the tight after badly punishing tho Omaha man. . In the United States Circuit Court, criminal branch, at Mew York, yesterday. Judge Benedict sentenced Geu. Peter A. Claasen to six years' imprisonment in the Erio county penitentiary. Claasen was convicted of wrecking the Sixth National Bank. A blast of 100 kegs of powder was discharged in the side of Lookout mountain, near Chattanooga. Tenn., yesterday, which dislodged 1 GO, 000 tons of rock. Tboufiand of tons of rock rolled down the mountain side, destroying 200 yards of railroad track. Wm. B. Munson, agent in Kansas City. Kan., of the Koyal Insurance Company of Liverpool, the Northern of London aud the Hamburg-Bremen of y many, lias be;n arrested, charged witl embezzling of $1,400 belonging to th rious companies. The money was lost in nbling. J. H. Mclntosk. an Omaha real-estate-dealer, arrested at Milwaukee for embezzlement, will make a contest against his extradition, and the same controversy that aroso between Governor Hill, of New York, and Governor Bulkeley. of Connecticut, is likely to be repeated, the claim being made that the Governor who issued the extradition papers is not legally Governor. Newspaper Manner. Is there a code of newspaper monnersT This is one of the questions which George William Curtis ' will disenss in the Editor's Easy Chair in Harper's Magazine for April. The code of newspaper manners, he sajs, is the universal code of courtesy, and not one restricted to the newspapers. "Good manners in civilized society am the sumo everywhere and in all relations. If a man is a gentleman, he does not cease to be one because be enters a newspaper of lice, and it would seem to be equally true that if his work on the paper does'not prove to be that of a gentleman it could' not have been a gentleman who did the (work. A gentleman, we will suppose, does not blackguard his neighbors, nor talk incessantly about himself and his achievements, nor behave elsewhere as he would be ashamed to behave in his club or in his own family. If a gentleman does not do these things, of course a gentleman does not do them in a newspaper.!'

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n .0 UAIXWAT TlME-TAULr.!. From IndlxoApoUs Ualaa SUtloa. ennsulvaniaHnes. L&il Wttt- SouLb Norla. Train run by Central Stamtard 7Vnc Leave for PltUbunr. Baltimore, ( d 4:l a nu Washington, rhiladelpala and Vtw d 3:00 m. York. (d 3:3 J pea. Arrive from the East, d 11:40 am., d 12:30 pm andd 10:00 pra. Leave for Uolumbn, 9.-00 am.: arrive from Ooluml)tL 3:43 pin.; leave for Richmond. 4.03 pm.: arrive from Klohxnond. !:00 aux. Leave for Chicago, d 11:05 am., d 11:30 pm4 arrive from Chloafo, d 3:45 pm.; d 3:30 &a Leave tor Loulsvllla, d 'J:io am., 8:0O am d 3:'5 pm. Arrive from LouiivUle, d 11:00 t 6:(K) pin., d 10:50 pm. Leave for Columbus, -1:30 pm. Arrive from Columbus. 10:J5 aio. . Leave for Vlnoennes aod Oalro, 7:20 anu 4:00) pm.; arrive front Ylnotaues aal Cairo; 10:53 aixu,3:00pm d. daily; otter trains exoept Sunday. TTANDALIA. LINE SHORTEST ROUTE TO f MT. LOOS ATI) THE WEST. Trains arrirs and lar IudlantpolUM follow Lear lor Louis. kta. 11:50 am. l:OJp m. 11.( 3 pm. All trains connect at Terra Hauta. Throuja sleeker on 11:00 p. ra. train. Gre-iiosUe and Terr UsaisAcoora'datlon. 4:00 arrive from St, Louis, 3;45m. 4:15 am, 2.50 pua. 5;i'j lm. 7i43 pn. Trn II acte and Grrncantle AworaMation, 1 0.03 ara, Sleeping and I arlor Curs are run on ihmach trains. Furrktes and information aprlj to ticket acfnu of the cMui ur, or w. r. UiiUNXEH. LMatrict 1 as enter Agent THE VE3I1BULED PULLMAN CAR LIX2. XJL1VS Df OlAKAtPOUS. Ko. 3tt IX on on Are, sx. Similar .....5:15 rd Ka 32 Chicago Lara. lullmn Veitlboled eoaenea, yarKir and diiiing cht. dm It ...11:25 as Arrive la CMcvo5.1u pm. UO.S4 Chicago NiKQt E.. VuUraau Vestl. baled oofechna ana sle;era, daily ...12:40 act ArrVreia UUcajco 7;5 ain. , , 4KKIVK AT LMJ 1AM APULIA. SJ-y'U.ula, dally S.20 pm 3S Veutibul. tUilr 311 aca . ,lon Arc., ex. Hrtndar 1O-40 act If a 4.8 Local freight letres Alabauia-aU jar J at 7:05 am. Pnllman Veattboled Sleepers for Chioat-o stand west end ot Union btatluu, aud can be Uita at a.ij p. nu.daUjr. Ticket offloea No. 28 Souta. IlUnois streatandAl TJnion Station. National Ink-Ms WrongM-froa Pips roa Gas. Steam & Water Boiler Tubes, Cast an Malleable Iron Fittlncf (Mack and iralranlzed). Valves,fitoj Cocks, I.njrtce Trimmtucs btesm Gauges, lipe Toners, riixi Cutters. Vies, bcrtw 1'lates and Dies. Wrcnchas. Steam Traps. Pumps, Kitchen tMnks, IIoe, lieltln, Hablltt Metal, Solder, Wiiita end Colored Wiping Waste, and all other supplies used In connection with Uas. rteaui aud Water. Natural Gas Supplies a upecialty. rHeam-heating Apparatus for IVbllc Huildlnk's, Htorerooms. Mill ft. f-hop, Facto rles. Laundries, Lumber Jiry-houfes, etc Cut aud Thread to order auy size W rouht-irou Pipe from j inch to V2 Inches diameter, KNIGHT di JILLSON, 75 St 778. renuylvanlast SUGAR WILL 11C CUEAPER The Housewife Can Now Preserve Fruit a ' ' a Very Small Cost. K nsas City Star. There is a big revolution going on in this country, tbo eflect of which will b felt from and after April 1. There is great evidence of it in Kansas City, beginning vr ith tho dato mentioned raw sugar will la admitted free of doty for the lirst time iq the history of the irovernnient. According ly there will be reductions in all grades 'ol re lined sugars. Kvery wholesale house and, every merchant has made it a point to get! rid of all their sugar before the price takea a tumble, and on April 1 it is doubtful if a pound can be found in stock. In some localities the merchants have been overzealous in their efforts to uuload. and as a , consequence there is a shortage in tho supply. This is tho case in Fort Scott, Kan., and to-day merchants from that placo visited the city and purched snpplies enough to tide them over until April 1. The eovernment has allowed merchant to ship sugar by the car-load in bond, and there are already several cars in Kansas City now under the supervision of Collector of tho Port KossGuthn.wbo, with his deputies, are keeping a vigilant watch over the stocks of sugar to see that no person receives a pound without first paying tho required tax of $2.60 a hundred. If a merchant runs out of sugar on the last day of March he must pay the full required duty if a pound leaves the bonded warehouse. Smrar is an article of universal consnniTv tion. and is one of the necensaries as well as luxuries of modern civilized life. Tho price, nowever, cots a great figure on the amount of consumption in the average family, and preparations that require "much, sweetening'' are dispensed with. Sugar is one article of diet that every housewile is thoroughly informed on. She knows that in the fruit season and in fruit canning a few cents on the pound cuts a great iiguro on the amount of fruit canned in the season. If this is a criterion there will be more fruit canned this season than ever before in tho history of this country. During the whole of this month refiners are preparing for the increased demand for sugar immediately after April 1. Tho Treasury Department baa ibud an important order on the subject intended to assist refiners in laying in a large supply. This regulatiou provides that refining can be done in advauce of April L In other wordd, the raw sugar imported during tho month of March can bo transferred in bond without payment of duty to bonded refineries, and after being retined can be transported to bonded warehouses in all parts ol the country. ly this means a large quantity of cheap sugar will be ready for use by the conenrners on April L junt as soon as government officials can fairly comply with the stipulations of the government ia releasing it. The consumer will get the fnfl benefit of the abolition of the duty on sugar, which averages 2J4 cents per pound. The lirst rush iu tha cheapened sugar may cause a temporary advance, according to some cf the leading wholesale men of this city, but the avdance. if any at all, will last but a few days at the longest. The standard sugar used is the granulated, end tho wholesale price of that at present is i'1 cents a pound. After April the price will be about 4 cents a pound, a clear savins to the consumer of 5 to U per ctit. Tho sum of $w"O,OW.0G0 is annually paid bv consumers as a tax on sugar. This w ill uovr be saved. i Tli a Chicago lilt a. FltUburi CTironlcie-Telrrsi-o. Miss Dnkane (of Pittsburgh Mr. Carnegie's interview predicting dull times ia the iron industry has set papa almost crary; he has so much raw pig on hand, you know. Miss i'acker (of Chicago) Why don't ha pickle itf Growlitg In the Wroug Direction. New York Press. The step from shooting and lynching negroes to lynching white men ii not a long; one, as the New Oilcans mob has demonstrated. Thenewouth is growing very rapidly, but not In the right direction. Verily It la. Atchison Globe. It is at this time of the year that a maa Congratulates himself at night that he has not had a cold all wiuter, aud wakes up the next morning with tho worst cold Lu ever had.

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